For Those Americans who miss home?????

I hope you can see it !!!!!!!!!!!!

I think you need to add the '.com'

Hmm, a lot of clouds and patriotic, melodramatic singing... but hey, it's not my country so I'll shut up now!

> Hmm, a lot of clouds and patriotic, melodramatic singing... but hey, it's not my country so I'll shut up now!



Yes i know is cloudy this other Video Aficionado shows better graphics


This is from an attraction in Epcot center disney is the world showcase all countries manufacture little villages an attractions of their country this is America. I just find this very true that besides being Inmerse in all the world's problems because we are the world"s superpower and that sometimes were are criticize by people that do not understand the meaning of America in the world and how no other Nation on Earth has awaken hope in a Better tomorrow for the whole world is an Idea that is Bigger than America Itself!!!!


www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgbkbn_xjig&feature=related


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Oh for goodness sake, that is awful, just awful.

Any estadunidenses who want to feel even more contrite should check out the Barney Cam nonsense on the White House site at http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/2007/barneycam.html. To be fair, Tony Blair's cameo makes it pretty shameful for the British, too.

This is all just so painful to watch!

And the Barney Cam? Cringeworthy.

Wow! Thanks for the video! This can be really useful.

Next time, if there happens be be a medical emergency where somebody swallowed something and we need to induce vomiting, I will be sure to make them watch this video! Thanks again!

> Wow! Thanks for the video! This can be really useful.

Next time, if there happens be be a medical emergency where somebody swallowed something and we need to induce vomiting, I will be sure to make them watch this video! Thanks again!




Yes you are right??? sometimes when i eat something bad that causes some type of stomach ache!!! I always put the Spanish National Anthem and it works like laxative!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great relief They should also prescribed the French and the German anthem's as Laxatives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



P.S I am sorry if this offended anybody ?????

> Hmm, a lot of clouds and patriotic, melodramatic singing... but hey, it's not my country so I'll shut up now!


It is my country, but fortunately or unfortunately I'm immune to the effect of the sappy variety of home-grown American nationalism. There are a more reflective ways of paying tribute to one's country... but for many, clouds and melodramatic singing are enough.

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Yes you are right??? sometimes when i eat something bad that causes some type of stomach ache!!! I always put the Spanish National Anthem and it works like laxative!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great relief They should also prescribed the French and the German anthem's as Laxatives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S I am sorry if this offended anybody ?????


LOL Rokipatel you never fail to get a laugh out of me even if I don't agree entirely with what you say or your approach. It's pretty amusing to see your posts and the replies they get because it's all very predictable. In fact it was pretty obvious what kind of responses your post would get from the very start. The video is over the top and I dont like it much myself. But, putting the video aside, it's interesting to see how upset Europeans always get when something positive is ever said about the States. It's like it hurts them to hear that the States does have some positive qualities. I don't know why this is. This is something that separates Europeans from Americans. When someone says something positive about Europe to an American such as ?Did you know that Europeans get 6 weeks paid vacation a year?? Instead of sneering and making some snide remark, we get inspired by the idea and say ?wow how nice it must be!? I feel that I cannot say anything positive about my country with Europeans. In the end I just rather not talk about my country at all while I'm here. I don't feel that I can even express myself on this forum without being attacked by some European which is why I haven't felt like posting lately. I get enough of that just living here.

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I feel that I cannot say anything positive about my country with Europeans. In the end I just rather not talk about my country at all while I'm here. I don't feel that I can even express myself on this forum without being attacked by some European which is why I haven't felt like posting lately. I get enough of that just living here.[/quote]

I don't know, YankeeGirl. I'm American and can have reasonable discussions with the Spaniards, Catalans, etc. around me here in Barcelona about the pluses and minuses of my corner of the U.S., California.

:-)

It's a good thing our country is very BIG and diverse. It's also BIG as far as obesity is concerned, but that's another topic :-)

bye
:-)

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I don't know, YankeeGirl. I'm American and can have reasonable discussions with the Spaniards, Catalans, etc. around me here in Barcelona about the pluses and minuses of my corner of the U.S., California.

:-)

It's a good thing our country is very BIG and diverse. It's also BIG as far as obesity is concerned, but that's another topic :-)

bye
:-)


REASONABLE discussions is the important idea here. I'm just tired of the idiotic comments people make sometimes. Like an hour ago my cu?ado came to me and making small talk said ?Hey, so who do you want to vote for, Hillary or Obama?? and I said ?I don't know i like them both for different reasons.? and raising his fist into the air revolutionary style he said ?Don't vote for Hillary. She's just more of the same. Down with hamburgueser?as and globalization. Yah!?
Wtf? Does he have any idea of the differences between Hillary and Obama -it didn't appear so. He's just reciting the same anti-American b.s. that goes around without putting any real thought into it. I don't know if you've received many other comments in that same vein. Since you've brought it up I'll share one comment that impressed me last year made by a fellow teacher who I respected as a professional and an intellectual. But I couldn't get past his theory about the obesity problem. According to him it's that we don't have olive oil in the United States. Interesting. I didn't bother to tell him that just about everyone I know has Californian olive oil in their cupboards because I didn't feel continuing a rediculous discussion. He said another amazing thing once, that our culture is so commercial that we offer classes on soft drinks in our high schools. Wow -I wonder where he pulled that one out of because he's never been to the States but obviously likes to walk around acting like an authority on the subject. Soda 101 -that's a new one to me.
oh yeah and about a month ago one of my husband's friends came to me during a dinner said privately ?se come mucho mejor aqu? que en los EEUU, eh? Solo comeis crema de cacahuete y perritos calientes. No teneis tu propia comida...? I was so stunned I didn't know what to say. YEAH all these years I've been surviving on peanut butter and hotdogs because there's nothing else to eat in the States. There are more but will spare you.
Around my work I'm known as ?Nevaska? because people can't remember if I'm from Nevada or Nebraska, or this mythical state they call ?Nevaska?. Actually I think that one's cute and I like being called it. But, anyway, it's the misconceptions about the States that get me, and how offensive people can be while expressing them.

You guys are great. "Nevaska!" I love it. Your cu?ado sounds hilarious, if a bit off putting at times. Hopefully you don't get sick of correcting him.

Nevaska!

What a laugh. I'd rather be called Alaska after the fab singer from the Movida Madrile?a... I'm American but I'm the son of immigrants from South Asia and I learned to deal up close and personal with obnoxious old-fashioned American racism in the Midwest, in New England, the West... I don't even know whether racism is the approrpriate term to describe the kind of ignorance that leads people to make silly comments about their notions of your ethnic origins, your religion, etc. I learned to have a thick skin in the U.S. but the best thing to do is laugh at the idiots and give them a little of their own medecine. It sounds like you do a little bit of that because even though you seem offended by their comments, you find them ridiculous enough to laugh AT them.

The self-proclaimed experts on whatever always tend to be obnoxious no matter what they go on and on about... I've heard self-proclaimed experts, both here and in the States, go on and on and on about things that they know nothing about...

The good thing is that this kind of stupidity is universal, you find it in Nebraska :-) and in Andaluc?a... You'll be the wiser person in the long run.

cheers



> [quote author="albaqaahuna" date="1205015616"]
I don't know, YankeeGirl. I'm American and can have reasonable discussions with the Spaniards, Catalans, etc. around me here in Barcelona about the pluses and minuses of my corner of the U.S., California.

:-)

It's a good thing our country is very BIG and diverse. It's also BIG as far as obesity is concerned, but that's another topic :-)

bye
:-)


REASONABLE discussions is the important idea here. I'm just tired of the idiotic comments people make sometimes. Like an hour ago my cu?ado came to me and making small talk said ?Hey, so who do you want to vote for, Hillary or Obama?? and I said ?I don't know i like them both for different reasons.? and raising his fist into the air revolutionary style he said ?Don't vote for Hillary. She's just more of the same. Down with hamburgueser?as and globalization. Yah!?
Wtf? Does he have any idea of the differences between Hillary and Obama -it didn't appear so. He's just reciting the same anti-American b.s. that goes around without putting any real thought into it. I don't know if you've received many other comments in that same vein. Since you've brought it up I'll share one comment that impressed me last year made by a fellow teacher who I respected as a professional and an intellectual. But I couldn't get past his theory about the obesity problem. According to him it's that we don't have olive oil in the United States. Interesting. I didn't bother to tell him that just about everyone I know has Californian olive oil in their cupboards because I didn't feel continuing a rediculous discussion. He said another amazing thing once, that our culture is so commercial that we offer classes on soft drinks in our high schools. Wow -I wonder where he pulled that one out of because he's never been to the States but obviously likes to walk around acting like an authority on the subject. Soda 101 -that's a new one to me.
oh yeah and about a month ago one of my husband's friends came to me during a dinner said privately ?se come mucho mejor aqu? que en los EEUU, eh? Solo comeis crema de cacahuete y perritos calientes. No teneis tu propia comida...? I was so stunned I didn't know what to say. YEAH all these years I've been surviving on peanut butter and hotdogs because there's nothing else to eat in the States. There are more but will spare you.
Around my work I'm known as ?Nevaska? because people can't remember if I'm from Nevada or Nebraska, or this mythical state they call ?Nevaska?. Actually I think that one's cute and I like being called it. But, anyway, it's the misconceptions about the States that get me, and how offensive people can be while expressing them.[/quote]

Roki: I want the PR Reggaet?n version of the Star-Spangled Banner!

:-)

Yeah it seems that rednecks can be found anywhere... heh.
Just yesterday we went to visit with one of my husband's relatives. Haven't seen him in a long time because for the past few years he's been living in London mopping floors where he says he can get more retirement money. He's a basque radical so I always have to bite my tongue when I'm around him anyway because he thinks human civilization began in the Basque Country and won't have it any other way. Anyway, I ask him how his English is coming along living in London and he brings up American English and British English. He tells me ?Americans have so much RRRRRRRRRR! They don't say car they say caRRRRRRRRRRRRR! British people say ?Cah... cah? and then says to me ?British English sounds so much better, don't you think?? So, O.K. You're asking me to agree with you that my accent is ugly. How does it occur to people to ask these things? What do you want me to say? I felt like saying ?What if I looked at your basque mullet and told you better hair can be found on a St. Bernard. Would you agree with me? You speak English like a caveman anyway and probably wouldn't know the difference between British and American English beyond the RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrr!?

Live and let live when it's not worth getting in someone's face.

Ask him to go to Newcastle and listen to the English spoken by a Geordie and see how the R and other consonants and vowels are twisted...

he he he

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Hi Just came across this thread and thought I'd comment. Im English, so in a weird kinda way I feel neutral to this and not biased towards The States or Europe!! Yankeegirl, you mentioned about Europeans being negative towards the US and not having a very positive attitude towards them. Its simple really and blatenly obvious! Its the war on Iraq/Afghanistan. Regardless of the American peoples personal opinions....Europeans (and the rest of the world) are so against this particular war and what it stands for!! Its a pointless war...something to do with Bush and his oil and making him richer....or something
Im mid 20s now and even over my fairly short lifetime, I have personally seen the change of attitude towards your nation and your people. 10 years ago it was a novelty to meet and American person, now people want to run away!! When it comes to Americans, peoples tolerance is at an all time low. And even in Britain, people tried to stay positive but when their 18 year old babies are being flown home in coffins after being killed by American "friendly fire" YET AGAIN!! You cant blame them and you have to see it from their mothers point of view!!
As easy as it is to say "dont take it personally", Americans will and no one can blame them for it. But thats the way it is. Its a shame that Britains friendship with America has been shattered, over stupid oil and a stupid little president....but things would have to change big time to improve peoples opinions now!!
Keeping guns in the home, weird strangle cults, over the top religion, corrupt government, Britney Spears, Columbine, mass shootings, crazy brit-killing soldiers......I could go on. But please, try and see it from the rest of the worlds point of view. xxx

Whoops!

I remember back in 2003 when the war began, I was in my first year of college. All of a sudden CGT signs started appearing all over campus saying "Yankees GO HOME!" I immediately complained to the administration on the grounds that I was a paying student and didn't need the discrimination. The next day the signs were down.

I took a lot of flak for not striking with the other students agaisnt the war. I have two brothers in the Air Force and countless cousins in the Army. Even though I didn't agree with the war, I had to support my family.

I don't agree with the blanket statement that Europeans are hostile towards Americans. Europeans don't like the American Administration or the effect that it has had on their countries and economies in the last years. This is like saying Americans are hostile towards Germans or Russians because of past wars. Come on already!!!

On a one to one level there is no problem. In fact, most of my friends and coworkers forget the fact that I'm a southern belle, despite the blond hair, blue eyes and white as a fish skin. I speak Spanish fluently, I hang out with them and do things like them and I'm just another one of the gang.

Yes, they tend to ask impertinent questions about the US, but think it through- they're just trying to connect with you or impress you by how much they know about your country.

Think what your American friends ask you when you return for a visit: So do y'all eat a lot of tacos over there? I bet y'all get tired of always wearing flamenco dresses? People are ignorant about cultures they don't know.

Hey and whoever is making comments about being a redneck- cut it out. I'm born and bred in Dixie and proud of it! Best place on earth after Andalusia